Economic Education of School Students: Causes of the Crisis

Svetlana Mikheeva and Olga Zhurkina
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Voprosy obrazovaniya / Educational Studies Moscow, 2019, issue 4, 231-253

Abstract: Svetlana Mikheeva - Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Associate Professor, Department of Public Administration, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Saint Petersburg). E-mail: smik252@gmail.com; smikheeva@hse.ruOlga Zhurkina - Assistant, Department of Economic Theory and Economic Education, Institute of Economics and Management, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Saint Petersburg). E-mail: ozhurkina@herzen.spb.ruAddress: 17 Promyshlennaya Str., 198095 St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.Russia's national school curriculum standards stipulate economic education at three levels: basic, advanced, and as part of the social theory course, yet schools rarely include basic economics in their curricula. Curricula of 615 St. Petersburg schools available at their official websites as well as data from online surveys of parents, students, teachers, and school administrators are used to find evidence of the demand for economics as a subject among school students. The fact that only two levels of economics instruction are represented in St. Petersburg schools is explained by staffing issues and impossibility to take the Unified State Exam (USE) in economics. Initiatives for a meaningful change the current situation are proposed in the article.

Keywords: schools; economics; economic education; social theory; the Unified State Exam (USE); curriculum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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